A Family Affair is the fourth album by young bassist Christian McBride. The ten songs on this CD are a mix of hard bop, funk and contemporary R&B. Family Affair (Sly & The Family Stone), Summer Soft (Stevie Wonder), Open Sesame (Kool & The Gang) and I'll Write A Song For You (Philip Bailey) are four pop songs edited by him. The other six, sometimes a bit too long, compositions are by
… McBride himself. Besides vocal assistance from Vesta Williams and Will Downing, the band consists of Tim Warfield (sax), Charles Craig (piano) and Gregory Hutchinson (drums). George Duke took care of the production (CK)more
